“The brain...is a wondrous thing we know very little about.”
I just read this sentence in my physics textbook. Never in the entire book has it called anything wondrous, and never before has it admitted it couldn’t explain something. This reminds me of how people in the past must have thought about other organs like the heart that are so easily explained now. In their absence of understanding, the organs were wondrous; now that we understand them, we have no time to waste on wonder. Couldn’t people understand things and still find them wondrous? But then, you might say, wonder is the lack of understanding. You don’t wonder about something if you understand it.
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